Markus Miessen - Crossbenching Toward a Proactive Mode of Participation, Critical Spatial Practice (Sternberg Press) - Softcover

Markus Miessen

 
9783956792205: Markus Miessen - Crossbenching Toward a Proactive Mode of Participation, Critical Spatial Practice (Sternberg Press)

Synopsis

At the heart of this book is a simple and profound proposition: to 'do' architecture is to immerse oneself in a conflictual process of material production-participation is not a productive encounter of multiple practitioners and stakeholders, but a set of conflicts, negotiations, maneuvers, and swindles between and within a multiplicity of agents, human and nonhuman alike-equally including architects, clients, financiers, and builders, say, but also silicon, plastic, concrete, each with its conflicting aims and different material means to achieve them.

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About the Author

Markus Miessen (né en 1978, vit et travaille entre Berlin, Londres et le Moyen-Orient) est architecte et écrivain. A la tête de l'agence collaborative Studio Miessen (www.studiomiessen.com), il est le cofondateur du cabinet d'architectes nOffice (www.noffice.eu) et dirige également la Winter School Middle East au Koweït (www.winterschoolmiddleeast.org).

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